EVELOC: Event-based Visual Localization

Image processing methods and camera systems allow, that mobile robots can perceive the working environment and to autonomously operate in it. Camera systems are because of their small size well suited to be used also for flying robots, like drones. The challenge in this area is the development of suitable computer algorithms to extract the necessary information from image data. Necessary information is 3D data of the environment, measurements of the robots position and information about objects in the environment. Within this project a new camera system, a so-called event camera should be used, and algorithms for pose estimation of mobile robots like drones should be researched. Event cameras do not produce typical image data, instead they produce data only for pixels where some change is happening. This allows for a much faster image acquisition, but traditional algorithms cannot process this type of data.